US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 3 for "Devices, systems, and methods for grasping tissue" (Costa Rican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,615, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for grasping tissue" was invented by Yeison Calvo (San Ramon, Costa Rica), Sean P. Fleury (Princeton, Mass.) and Gian Franco Loo Fuchs (San Jose, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector having first and second jaws movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. At least one jaw has a tissue-engaging surface contoured to enhance grasping of tissue between the jaws. For instance, the tissue-engaging surfaces may be contoured to engage tissue along the tissue-engaging surface subst...